I am an experienced print journalist with a background at newspapers and magazines. My writing focuses on human rights, women's rights and children's lives in the developing world.

I have recently published pieces about the impact of the war in Libya on children in Sirte, press freedom in Liberia, a matrilineal society in Indonesia, and several covering sexual violence, public health and security in the DR Congo. I am willing to travel to most places around the globe and, with my international reporting skills, I am able to deliver thought-provoking and engaging stories.

As an education reporter for two years, I wrote effectively about public officials, local politics, educational innovations and young children.

I have two master's degrees -- one in international human rights law and the other in journalism from Columbia University. I am a clear, accurate and thorough writer and I am well-versed at sourcing, fact-checking and meeting (and beating) deadlines.

Second place, Magazine Reporting, New Jersey Chapter Society Of Professional Journalists Excellence In Journalism Awards; the story, “The Kids Really Are All Right,” appeared in Inside Jersey Magazine. (2012)

First place in the Robert P. Kelly Award from the New Jersey Press Association while at the Herald News. Award given to a first-year reporter at a daily paper with a circulation under 60,000. (2007)

James A. Wechsler Award for National Affairs Reporting for my Masters project at Columbia about Muslim Americans in the U.S. military. (2006)

Other

I have a master's degree in journalism from Columbia University. I have a second master's degree in international human rights law from the School of Oriental and African Studies, London. Here my focus was on women's human rights.

Freelancer Availability

I freelance full-time. I live near New York, NY. I am willing to travel anywhere. I have a driver's license. I have access to a car.

Ever since she published a front-page story about female genital cutting within a secret society of women, the Liberian journalist Mae Azango has lived in fear, and threats have sent her into hidingÃ¢â‚¬â€but she says she will continue to speak out.

According to a new study, the pandemic of sexual violence in war-torn Congo is far worse than previously reportedâ€”with four women raped every five minutes. Danielle Shapiro investigates what the numbers mean.

On a visit to the rugged rural mountains of western Nepal, writer Danielle Shapiro discovered a land rich in natural beauty and poor in nearly every other way. Meet the three-sister team that is changing the lives of Neplai women one trail, one guide, and one trek at a time

Group homes and networks are helping mothers in Congo to counter harsh discrimination as well as their frequent reluctance to accept children of rape. Since fighting engulfed eastern Congo in the late 1990s, hundreds of thousands of women have been victims of sexual violence.

On International Women's Day there's no better place to be than Bukavu, in the troubled eastern part of the Democratic Republic of Congo. The outfits are spectacular, the dancing is spirited and the horn orchestra keeps playing through the rain.